Reposted by NickotenNickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/11/2024If you’re interested in video game scenario writing/quest design, Phantasy Star 1 is a great text to study. It uses a valuable technique for blending thematic genres in games: use elements of one genre to solve problems of the other. Solve a sci fi problem using magic and vice versa. 🧵 26726
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My daughter will love this. She loves sumo wrestling for some reason 110
Reposted by NickotenThe Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 09/10/2026The ashcan edition of my new game is out. HONBASHO is a 1v1 skirmish game that simulates modern sumo wrestling. I made it to teach sumo with a game, more than make a sumo game. My hope is that after someone plays this game, they will have a basic understanding of sumo and can watch and enjoy it.midnightoilph.itch.ioHONBASHO: A Grand Sumo Skirmish Game by Midnight Oil Publishing House 76825
Reposted by NickotenYochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Searchable scans of public domain art! insideoutlibrary.cominsideoutlibrary.comInside Out LibraryOrbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything. 114672
Reposted by NickotenRise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Old-school Essentials has some real sickos.jpg rules for constructing a castle. Here is a simplified method: Print out this page. Each block costs 1,000 gp for basic construction, or 1,500 gp for a furnished section. Arrange to taste.riseupcomus.blogspot.comMicroblog: Papercraft - Hvem kan bygge den smukkeste Borg?Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer... 919751
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026White people out here trying to tell me that fasting and staying celibate won’t make me able to levitate. lol, lmao 120
Reposted by NickotenLuna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A once in a lifetime cosmic event will take place today: for exactly 2 minutes, the names Bilbao (Portugal) and Bilbo (the Hobbit, Lotr) will switch places everywhere. Take this into account, keep your guard up. 18013
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Training us for the inevitable case of the missing Luke 030
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just realized I did not provide the context that this character actually desires to be a novelist 000
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This scene from Okazaki’s Pink is uncomfortably relevant 220
Reposted by Nickotenbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think about this post all the time. you might too 3269501756
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The pro strat is to skip the whole truck puzzle entirely, all you need is the shotgun and ammo from that house 010
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sometimes I remember how my IP professor would occasionally say things in a funny voice or cadence and suddenly 23-25yo grown adults would pay attention and laugh after zoning out for 30 minutes on their laptop, and how this must have eroded her soul in ways I’m only beginning to understand 050
Reposted by NickotenMax (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 19/09/2026RESIDENT EVIL 2 R.P.D. 🗺️ 1F/2F 1998 vs. 2019 comparison. (full resolutions in my galleries as usual.) 211931
Reposted by NickotenGreg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026…it begins. #gaming #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...kickstarter.comTHOMAS JEFFERSON'S SPEEDWAY HELL: Dangerous Playtest EditionIt's a tabletop RPG where sinners race through Hell to win brief moments of peace. It's handled with tremendous silliness. 13416
Reposted by NickotenBrian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 16/09/2026Come learn about Team Brazil AND Faith No More?! 163
Reposted by NickotenMax (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 16/09/2026king's field 4 marches on... simple spaces, vast in number. clearly the inspiration for the Backrooms films 3478
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Holy shit. I cannot imagine how hard this must be. The complete all-in-one fan map I remember referencing when I first played this game looked like the workings of a mad man. Very excited for this one! 120
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The em dashes thing really hurt. I actually avoid using them as much now. Not that my abuse of them was ever *good*, but at least it wasn't mistaken for being a robot! 120
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's kinda wild how widespread the word "meccha" has become. Is it even considered kansaiben now 000
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Between this and the nothingburger post, we are not beating the allegations 030
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I do something like this too! Love notecards as character sheets 010
Reposted by NickotenRoss Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Someone made a searchable archive of public domain footage so you can get cool video clips without having to pay Getty www.destockd.com - learn more in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzq...destockd.comDestockdA free, searchable archive of public domain footage from U.S. government films. Search by describing what you see — CLIP-powered visual search, not keywords. 24819
Reposted by NickotenEvey 💀 Swamp Hag Trainee 🐸|🏳️⚧️ @violentmedia.itch.io · 06/09/2026you can get the 6 Raccoons in a Weird Wizard's Coat background here, btw: violentmedia.itch.io/lovely-littl...violentmedia.itch.ioLovely Little Weirdos by Evey Lockhart3 cute little freak backgrounds for Troika 032
Reposted by NickotenSean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 01/09/2026Applications for the Mothership #Jump-9 Writers Grant are now open. Deadline is September 30. www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mother... 815279
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I went in a different direction with this and made it so some things are just small and valuable, making them really desirable. The problem is this does create a situation where players try to calculate optimal value per encumbrance, which is realistic in its own way, but slower 000
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I didn't really think about how I needed to define how many small things to a slot until mid session. That was embarrassing. I do love giving my players two slot items though. 000
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I really didn't like that the trailer said "starring Toshiro Mifune." They also made it seem like Tupac was an actor in that new game from the Yakuza people. 100
Reposted by NickotenBrandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It’s the day after, and the sound of erupting cheers for Elis Montgomery winning Best Poem still fills me with joy. May this be the energy next year. May this be the energy after 2029. May speculative poetry remain a beacon star in the constellation of our genre, forever and always. 210421
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You can tell the new Onimusha wasn’t made by white people cause Musashi will just walk up and slit a mf’s throat without internally questioning his honor. 040
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I think prep notebooks (esp with notes on what helped and didn’t afterward) would be a really interesting thing to see from others. Like, no layout or art or anything, just as raw as it can be. That is likely to be more helpful than an adventure in some cases. 130
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026…where are the creature collector team sports games? This is so obvious now after reading your post that I’m baffled 120
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really wanted way more Fort Haights and way fewer arena bosses. 120
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is one of my biggest critiques of Elden Ring. Fort Haight is a tantalizing example of what could be — a “boss” at the top of an open air fort where the different floors interact, and interesting encounters dotting the multiple, overlapping paths to it. And the boss can fight alongside the mobs! 120
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Being a writer is the best. I can just get uglier and more disgusting with each passing year and it doesn’t even matter 030
Reposted by NickotenLuna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The nice gig that's been giving me life for the last few months is about to end, which means that (once I'm done with all the freelance stuff) I gotta start looking for another biggish contract 🦦🦦 2257
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If it helps, reading Night Tripper made me feel enthusiastic about RPGs 040
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Or in the alternative, those photo-of-a-tv screenshots you’d see for the earliest images of a game in a magazine 010
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It’s got this 90s cgi digitized sprite look to it but in full 3D. Love this look! 140
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026So apparently Blood of the Dawnwalker is *not* an expansion for Final Fantasy 14. 000
Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It’s wild how even just reading the news has the intrusive ad level of a roms website from the early 2000s. 030
Reposted by Nickotenbarenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...barenuckelavee.bearblog.devNO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOUThere is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c... 34304143
Reposted by Nickotensunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 20/08/20261000xRESIST is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2. After all the compromises made on Switch 1, this feels like a full circle moment. PC quality, high resolutions, and haptics have come to the portable experience. 8415122